Your community can use many ways to teach family food needs
Make America Strong set, poster 11: a photograph of two women and a toddler at a table of milk bottles, cans, vegetables and bread, with a wall sign headed 'Food for family of four for one week'. The headline invites the community to teach family food needs. Ordinary mothers shown in a plain setting give a plain-folks look; the technique is faint here.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (Make America Strong poster set; issuing agency not named on sheet), printed by U.S. Government Printing Office
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Government Printing Office. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1313C (NAID 514942).
Text on the object
YOUR COMMUNITY can use many ways to teach family food needs [sign on wall in photograph:] FOOD FOR FAMILY OF FOUR FOR ONE WEEK MAN EXPECTANT MOTHER TWO PRESCHOOL CHILDREN HOW MUCH FOOD SHOULD YOUR FAMILY HAVE LET US HELP YOU MAKE A LOW COST MARKET LIST FOR YOUR FAMILY [labels on goods in photograph:] MILK; DRIED BE[ANS]; TOMAT[O] [imprint:] Make America Strong (set of 13 posters) . . . . . Poster No. 11 [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941—O-292318
